stuart: president obama meeting with congressional leaders right now. rich edson is there at the white house. i suspect he may be wasting your time a little. i don't think there'll be any kind of a deal until the last week of december or even new year's eve. >> have to agree with you on that one. i think i will be standing right here in a month and a half talking about the same thing except a little bit more sense of urgency and possibly a little sense. stuart: by the way, we saw the photo op with the president with john boehner, take it the senate democrats are there as well, they are all there? >> at his house minority leader nancy pelosi, harry reid, treasury secretary, vice president and senate minority leader mitch mcconnell. stuart: they will be in that spot until the end of the year. another report on government race, the defense department spending $6 billion on nonmilitary research. projects in a million on things like jesus hating fictional space aliens and developing a rollup version. this is the defense department, this is the pentagon. >> w